Company Snapshot : Wipro Limited

Aug 9th, 2017

1. About the Company:

Wipro Limited is an Indian IT (Information Technology), consulting and business process services company, headquartered in Bangalore. It was established in 1945 by Mohamed Premji, as avegetable oil manufacturer then known as ‘Western India Vegetable Products Limited’. It entered into the IT domain in the year 1981. It is the 3rd largest Indian IT Company in terms of revenue, as on March 2017.

2. History:

1945: Established as Western India Vegetable Products Limited in Amalner, Maharashtra.

1946: IPO for capital.

1966: After Mohamed Premji’s death, his son Azim Premji took over Wipro as its chairman.

1977: The name of the company changed to Wipro Products Limited.

1981: Ventured into the IT Industry by manufacturing and selling mini computers.

Related Articles

Western India Products Limited:It is the IT solutions and R&D services subsidiary of Wipro Limited.

Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting: WCCLG is the business unit that operates in the FMCG segment dealing in consumable commodities. It sells personal care products like baby oil, and lighting products like LED and emergency lights.

Wipro Infrastructure Engineering: It is the hydraulics business division of Wipro Limited that manufactures hydraulic cylinders, truck cylinders, and their components and solutions.

Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited: It is Wipro’s joint venture with GE Healthcare South Asia, involved in R&D of advanced solutions in the healthcare sector.

Wipro has 91 subsidiaries as on 31st March 2017.

8. Product Categories:

Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Consumer Business Unit

Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities

Communications

Manufacturing and Technology

9. Services:

Global Infrastructure Services:Optimization on Cloud technologies and Modernization of applications to support Hybrid environments. Services are managed through ServiceNXT and internally developed Autonomics framework- Fixomatic.

Product Engineering Services:Reduces total cost of ownership and time-to-market of products. Provides after market support and support for design of engineering services for manufacturing.

Business Process Services:Achieves standardization, simplification and optimization of businesses.

Expected GD-WAT Topics

Planning your MBA after Job?

Book Of The Week

VOCAB STORY OF THE WEEK

Once, there was a preacher who was an avid golfer. Every chance he could get, he would be on the golf course swinging away. It was an obsession. One Sunday was a picture-perfect day for golfing. The sun was out, no clouds were in the sky, and the temperature was just right.
The preacher was in a quandary as to what to do, and shortly, the urge to play golf overcame him. He called an assistant to tell him that he was sick and could not do church, packed the car up, and drove three hours to a golf course where no one would recognize him. Happily, he began to play the course.Read More

You need to sign-Up/Log-In to view this article

Career2NextOrbit helps its visitors embark on a progressive journey, from being an MBA Aspirant to B-School Student to a successful Management Professional. We aim to be the most visited portal in the MBA ecosystem of India.